When suddenly, at the midnight hour, an invisible troupe is heard passing with exquisite music, with shouts -- your fortune that fails you now, your works that have failed, the plans of your life that have all turned out to be illusions, do not mourn in vain. As if long prepared, as if courageous, bid her farewell, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all do not be fooled, do not tell yourself it was a dream, that your ears deceived you; do not stoop to such vain hopes. As if long prepared, as if courageous, as it becomes you who have been worthy of such a city, approach the window with firm step, and with emotion, but not with the entreaties and complaints of the coward, as a last enjoyment listen to the sounds, the exquisite instruments of the mystical troupe, and bid her farewell, the Alexandria you are losing. http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/antony.html
<http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=12&cat=1>Wojtek
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:27 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, February 15, 2011 1:54 pm, brad wrote:
>
> > If we have to wait for things to get better in
> > the US before the left can emerge as a real political force we are in
> deep
> > shit.
>
> I can't speak for Doug or Carrol, but I think their point is that there is
> no "wait" -- there is only resistance. No party will magically appear to
> transform this dying Empire into a social democracy, no micropolitics will
> magically appear and wish away the reactionary identity-politics of
> Empire. All of us must do what we can, practice and live the democracy and
> justice we preach, every day of our lives.
>
> The amazing power of al-Jazeera's coverage was not that it created
> anything anew, but that it allowed the democracy movement to create its
> own mass media representation: the immense diversity, complexity and
> euphoric freedom of the masses on Tahrir Square.
>
> It's just the beginning. What Al-Jazeera is to the 2011 Revolutions,
> videogame culture is to transnational culture, and the digital commons is
> to transnational class struggle.
>
> -- DRR
>
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